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Derby, Iowa

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 50068. The Survey maps it on the Derby quadrangle. 90 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.

Derby within Lucas County

Population over time

2 figures

Derby fell from 115 to 90 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010115
202090-25 (-22%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

25 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Derby between 2006 and 2019, burning about 706 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 September 2012Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
5 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
10 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 May 2013Debris and open burning50 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 April 2018Debris and open burning20 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresIowa Department of Natural ResourcesS OF 60TH AND VALE IN WAYNE CO, IA
4 April 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresIowa Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lucas County

Storms near this place

18 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Derby in 18 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 heavy rain, 3 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2022Tornado (EF3)Derby1 killed, 1 hurt, $1,500,000This tornado formed as two other tornadoes dissipated in southern Lucas county. The tornado moved to the northeast across rural areas of southern into central Lucas county primarily in wooded areas and cropland with little damage. Of note however, was a satellite tornado observed in chasing video (in seperate Storm Data entry) which developed north of the main tornado and moved south toward the main circulation, doing a complete revolution around the main tornado before being absorbed. Shortly afterwards, the tornado crossed State Highway 14 south of Chariton destroying a conservation center which was rated EF3. The tornado continued to the northeast removing a roof from a house along 235th Trail and passed through an open field before entering Red Haw State Park. The tornado ripped through a campground in the park with one fatality and one injury occurring. The tornado exited the park and crossed Highway 34 east of Chariton with numerous outbuildings and power poles damage or destroyed. The tornado then remained in rural wooded areas and cropland for the rest of its path with little additional damage noted.
September 2008Flash FloodDerby$100,000Water was covering many roads in western Lucas County. Water was over 135th Ave in Stevens Forest. Water was also reported in several basements over western Lucas County.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindDerby$50,000Public reported to law enforcement that thunderstorm winds damaged some outbuildings, and damage to a wall and siding of a house. A few large trees were uprooted as well, with some large limbs down as well.
June 1994HailDerby$50,000no account filed
July 2008Thunderstorm WindDerby$20,000Numerous trees were damaged and siding ripped off of a barn by high winds.
June 2002HailDerby$5,000no account filed
June 2002HailDerby$5,000no account filed
August 2007Thunderstorm WindDerby$4,000Two large trees were blown down 1.5 miles northeast of Derby.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindDerby$2,000no account filed
May 2024HailDerby-Delayed report of hail up to golf ball size from the Derby Fire Department. The time of occurrence was estimated from radar.
March 2022Tornado (EFU)Derby-This tornado moved into Lucas county from Wayne county. This portion of the tornado was documented via video from storm chasers and high resolution satellite imagery. The tornado had no documented interaction with damage indicators, hence the EFU rating.
March 2022Tornado (EFU)Derby-Video from a storm chaser documented this tornado. This was a second satellite tornado to a larger tornado which had an earlier satellite tornado in Decatur and Wayne counties. This tornado remained in southern rural Lucas county and did not impact any damage indicators, hence the EFU rating.
July 2021Heavy RainDerby-A 24 hour rain total of 2.90 inches.
October 2018FloodDerby-Iowa DOT reported US 65 closed due to flooding between County Road H50 and US 34.
July 2015Heavy RainDerby-Public reported heavy rainfall of 5.50 inches.
September 2014Heavy RainDerby-Rainfall of 4.6 inches.
August 2014Heavy RainDerby-Rainfall of 5.00 inches reported via Facebook.
June 2011HailDerby-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lucas County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Last Chance5.4 miles7
Lucas6.7 miles11
Troy (historical)7.4 miles11
Whitebreast8.9 miles11
Indianola Junction9.2 miles11
Chariton9.8 miles11
Oakley12.6 miles11
Norwood12.8 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on DerbyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1933732The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 455887. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.